2016 Enclave Audio CineHome HD 5.1 Wireless Home Theater System

LOGISTICSI paid $390 to have it shipped and it took more than 3 weeks for me to receive... no I don't live in the middle of the jungle, desert or ocean.When I tried to register the product the website only accepts addresses in USA and Canada... and no reply yet from Enclave regarding this issue I raised with them.SUMMARYAside from the logistics and registration problems, this is a pretty good product for the price range and package size.Set up was very easy as you can read from other reviews.The remote control is very slow, so you may have to deal with some lag time when you press the buttons.SETUPI experimented with plugging in my sources to the Center Channel and then from the Center Channel to the TV; I found this more troublesome as I had to keep switching input sources using the Enclave Remote which was so slow or perhaps even faulty. I ended up plugging the sources to the TV and using the Optical Cable to connect from the TV to the Center Channel. This way I only needed to use the TV remote control which controls my TV, the DVD player, Netflix and now the volume of the Enclave Speakers. However you will need to set this function up between your TV and the Enclave Speakers. (In the Enclave Menu its under CEC)BLUETOOTHWhen I need to connect the Enclave Speakers to Bluetooth devices I have to choose Bluetooth as my input source. Because I connected my sources to the TV input, there was no video input from the Enclave Speakers to the TV, I could not see the Enclave menu.... So I have now connected one of my TV HDMI inputs to the Enclave Speaker output. Every time I need to see the Enclave Menu when making adjustments I have to switch my TV input to the HDMI channel connected to the Enclave Speaker. I know all this description sounds crazy but it would look a lot easier with diagrams.ADJUSTMENTSYou can adjust how loud each channel speakers sounds by making adjustments in the Enclave Menu. The volume of the Bass Unit can be increased by placing it against a wall. Otherwise I have to adjust it to its maximum because I have it placed in the middle of the room.SOUND QUALITYIn all honesty, these speakers sound pretty good for their size and price. I mean you can't compare the sound quality of these speakers with say full sized speakers that come with full sized price tags. I use the Enclave Speakers in my bedroom as such a small size is a big deal to me. Besides I don't need a loud volume in the bedroom. I can use the big speakers in my living room when I need volume and space.Speech is very clear when watching movies. And action movies with Dolby really come alive!I've heard the SONOS at a show room and wasn't impressed at all; all I could hear was the Bass and muddled spacing; maybe they didn't set it up correctly. BOSE is nice but where I come from, a BOSE system costs sometimes 2 to 3 times what they cost in the US and a comparable BOSE system in the US would definitely cost a lot more than the $1,199 for the Enclave. Dollar for Dollar you are getting a big bang for your buck with the Enclave.I have but one big issue with the Enclave Speakers, you can't play old recordings on them, well not that you can't, but I suspect they have not been programmed or tuned to play old/poor quality recordings. The music comes out sounding really strange and lost. Trio Los Ponchos sounded out of tune and some jazz masters sounded like music from transistor radios. However when you play newer recordings like Diana Krall the speakers come alive, you can feel the presence....CONCLUSIONI love the Enclave Speakers for their Price/Quality ratio and their Size/Quality ratio, they are perfect for a bedroom sized environment. Besides the biggest selling point is the WISA Technology; there are no speaker wires running all over my room!

Kittens and speaker cables don't mix. After endless issues with them pawing at the cords and causing our hyper-sensitive Sony amplifier to go into "protect" mode because a whisker of wire someplace touched something, I gave up and bought this. The reviews I read said it gave respectable sound, so I expected it to be so-so: better than a sound bar, but not as good as a wired system, just more convenient.My old system was a mid-range Sony amplifier (STR-860), a Sony sub-woofer and Polk surround sound speakers. When it wasn't shorting out (which was most of the time), it sounded pretty good. Well, this new system sounds better, albeit for about twice the cost of the old system. It's a snap to set up--everything is labeled, so you can't do it wrong. We watched Inception and Jurassic Park as a test. The sub-woofer has good depth--better than our old one--and the surround sound speakers also have solid range and response. Best of all, no speaker wire cluttering up the bedroom! Yay!While I'm happy with the sound quality and convenience, I have to say, not all is perfect. The system is only HDCP 1.4 compliant, not the newer 2.2 standard. The infuriating thing here, of course, is that the HDCP standard provides zero benefit to the consumer--it's a digital rights management scheme imposed by the industry and we all have to pay for it even though we get no benefit from it. The newer standard is, by design, not backward compatible with the old standard. So, if you have a new, 4K ultra-high-def TV, and your cable box, or Roku box, or whatever, ALSO uses the newer standard, it won't work to pass the signal through a device with the *older* standard. As far as the HDCP 2.2. TV and cable box are concerned, anything in between that's NOT HDCP 2.2 is trying to steal protected property and the transmission fails. As you can tell, the people who design these standards have, shall we say, a casual disdain for you and me, the consumer.So anyway, IF one of your devices is sending HDCP 2.2 signals and IF your TV is trying to *accept* HDCP 2.2 signals, then when you try to pass the signal through your new Enclave system via HDMI cables, it fails. All you see is a blue screen, or, worse yet, a flashing, strobe-like image. Again, yay. This raises the question why the folks at Enclave chose to only implement the HDCP 1.4 standard, but I can guess why. Not only do you and I have to pay for this more-or-less crippled feature of our equipment, the *manufacturers* have to pay to USE the standard. It's cheaper to use the old standard than the new, so they kept their cost--and ours!--down by only implementing HDCP 1.4. Generally, if you're happy with Blue Ray level video (I am), then that works if you down grade the HDCP 2.2 signal to HDCP 1.4. That means you can kiss ultra-high-def video goodbye, since HDCP 2.2 is designed specifically to keep you from stealing the shows you are watching. But it ALSO means you've got to buy another box (for around $30) to make your system work if you wind up, as I did, with HDCP errors and no video.Except...there IS another work-around. The Enclave system is designed like my old Sony amplifier: plug your "input" devices (cable box, Roku, Blue Ray player) into the Enclave smart center speaker, and then run one cable from the speaker to your TV to carry the video. As noted above, that can lead to HDCP failure and NO video. The alternative is to run your "input" devices directly to your TV, assuming both ends are HDCP 2.2 compliant. Then--assuming your TV lets you do this, and most do--you can run an optical audio cable from your TV to the optical jack on the Enclave smart center speaker, and the problem is solved! You've got the ultra-high-def video on your 4K TV and digitial sound (but not ultra-high-def sound) coming out of your speakers.There are other issues with making THAT work having to do with how you set the Enclave system to know its input will be the optical sound port. A Harmony remote comes in handy for that, but this review is already too long.The bottom line is that I like this system, although it turned out to be harder to set up than I'd expected due to HDCP errors. No matter--it was still a gazillion times easier than trying to track down which speaker wire the cats had jinxed.

Giving a tentative four stars to the Enclave! May bump to 5 if my interactions with their tech support turn into action items.Pros:1. The wireless speaker connectivity was instant and perfect, and has not failed once yet2. No noticeable latency, despite the wireless connection method3. Sound is nice and clear4. Really easy to set up, pretty much plug-n-play5. Mobile app works okay (and is better than the remote for controlling the system)6. Good experiences with tech support so farCons:1. Wish it connected via Wifi & had a web-control interface/API and not Bluetooth connection for remote control (as an AV automation engineer, I like IP control, because I can program for that!)2. Remote is a little on the cheap side, but it gets the job done -- the app is better in every way (except using Bluetooth to connect)3. Some minor hiccups, mostly caused by my (Sony Bravia) TV4. Wish the DC power supplies fit more nicely into a power strip, they're just a lil bit bulkyTips:1. When switching to Aux/ARC and using TV to control volume, it typically defaults to muted -- raise the volume up by one or two notches to get it started, and then adjust up/down as needed2. On a Sony Bravia TV, ARC shuts off when you switch to the HDMI/ARC input, so just make sure to not be on it when you want to Chromecast or use other TV apps (if you want to turn ARC back on, you have to switch to another input on the Enclave and then switch back to Aux/ARC). If you have a smart TV and use the apps, use the ARC input for controlling the Enclave only (as recommended in the quick-start guide they provide) and plug everything else into your TV's inputs

Very happy with system overall. Setup was easy and seamless. Speakers took a couple of minutes to setup for sound level and position. Much more volume than the piece of junk Sony bdv n9200 it replaced. The sub has beautiful, full and powerful response. I would have appreciated a way to adjust the range on it but it's a small issue. The app works very well but I would have liked a remote to be included. The price was less than half of the klipsch system I was considering so in my opinion it is appropriately priced.

Excelente producto, muy buena calidad de audio, súper fácil de instalar!Solo que después de algunas horas de uso al máximo tiene un lago por corto tiempo y después continúa funcionando normal!En general muy buen producto, tiene unos bajos excelentes!Lo recomiendo !